![]() ![]() Think Jack Irish, his Fitzroy solicitor-cum-fixer think Joe Cashin in The Broken Shore and now think Stephen Villani. Usually after they've previously got them spectacularly wrong in an unco-operative world. It's not clear if Peter Temple is as hardboiled a writer as some of the examples Mosley has in mind but certainly his main characters are trying in their own shambolic way to get things right. The writer may have a notion of what is right and make a world where the ending, if not exactly happy, is at least satisfying.'' ![]() ![]() People in a hardboiled world have had to improvise from the moment they were born. IN A short essay in Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors' A New Literary History of America, Walter Mosley, the creator of ''Easy'' Rawlins, muses on the hardboiled: ''In the pages of any hardboiled book worth its ink is the question - can I do right in a world gone wrong? … There is no one answer to this question. ![]()
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